[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 1, Issue 464

[DWSI at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/23/2003 10:40:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com writes:

> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz? Improv or Rhythm?
> 
Dan Spink comments:

This "problem" of defining a type of music sounds very familiar to me by now. 
I used to assume there were workable definitions of modern jazz, traditional 
jazz, ragtime, classical and even popular music. Yet, every time I tried to 
pin it down the subject has exception after exception, contractions all over 
the floor and people arguing over what the type is about. Why don't we just 
agree that you can't pin it down too neatly? I know what I love and it's 
called traditional jazz, Dixieland, ragtime, stride piano, and sometimes 
barrelhouse, honky tonk or just blues. What's in a name?

Dan (piano fingers) Spink
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